TUSCALOOSA, Alabama -- Playing Tennessee probably brings back some bad memories for Alabama's Cyrus Kouandjio. In a 37-6 victory over the Vols at this time last season, the left tackle suffered a season-ending knee injury.

"When I got hurt was almost exactly a year ago, it was tough," the sophomore said. "To rehab every day -- I didn't know it was going to be as hard, actually. When you get hurt, it's not a joke, because it's tough to get back.

"I'm still kind of hurting a little bit. But I'm just ready to go out there and play, you know? I'm actually pretty excited. It's been a year, and this is the same team that I tore my ACL against. I'm ready to go out there and have fun."

The Crimson Tide is coming off a 42-10 victory at Missouri in which it rushed for a season-high 362 yards.

"It was a good game," Kouandjio said. "I was pretty wet. It was like slip and slide out there. Rain pretty hard. We had a lot of fun out there. We eventually had to fight for a while. They gave us a good fight. We had a lot of yards, I guess, due to our focusing on what we were doing and focusing on the little things like the little techniques. It was a good game."

In this video, see and hear more of what Kouandjio had to say after practice Wednesday.

He talked about Tennessee's defense, roommate Vinnie Sunseri and more.